The detective who painstakingly solved a 32-year-old murder case and jailed a Bristol man through groundbreaking DNA evidence has told her story - and said what the killer told his wife chilled her the most.
Julie Mackay was a Detective Sergeant with Avon and Somerset police when she transferred to the force’s cold case unit - and became fascinated with the shocking case of the murder of a teenager in Bath back in 1984.
She pledged to the mother of Melanie Road, who was just 17 when she was raped and murdered on her way home from a night out, that she would not rest until she found her daughter’s killer - and they still have a bond and friendship that will last a lifetime.
